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Chan rak khun

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:39 pm
by Ninjaprod
So I was texting this thai girl. and she texted me

"Chan Rak Khun"

I didn't know what it meant. So i googled it and found
Phom-rak-khun (I love you / male speaker)
Chan-rak-khun (I love you / female speaker)

Does this mean
I love you.
or
I love you as a friend, kind of way?

Re: Chan rak khun

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:44 pm
by daฟาน
di-chan would be female, just chan can also be male (more poetic, used in every other song)

It means I love you, however Thais generally tend to say things like this faster than Westerners would. Anyway... it still means "I love you" (and I may be mistaken, but I'd say it always means like a lover, not like a friend)

Re: Chan rak khun

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:45 pm
by claude06thailand
"Chan Rak Khun"
means "I love you" as a lover, not as a friend only.

Re: Chan rak khun

PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:54 am
by DonSena
By the time that the relationship develops into the romantic stage,
the pronouns tend to be replaced by the nicknames of the two
principles involved. The resulting sentence is as if you were
speaking in the third person:

[He] loves [he]r / [She] loves [him], with the nicknames in place
of the pronouns.

Re: Chan rak khun

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:12 am
by Terabapuno1
Anyway... it still means "I love you" (and I may be mistaken, but I'd say it always means like a lover, not like a friend)????








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Re: Chan rak khun

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:58 am
by Kurozero77
Chan rak khun is I love you.

And, without any other contents, it really means the speaker says she loves the listener as a lover.
This sentence sounds really formal to Thai people, and this means the speaker and listener still do not know each other very well.

In the other case, if someone wants to say "love" to a friend, that friend must be a very close friend of the speaker, and she (or he) will say something more casual, not the one that sounds so formal like "Chan rak khun."

Re: Chan rak khun

PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:56 am
by Tomke__987
She loves you!

Show us a picture or it didn't happen!

Just kidding :)

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